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than the one in Dalesville about 4 miles away. It is said that some years back it
had groun up in bush. and Mrs. Ethel MacGibbon tells me, that there was a comnittee
formed, and money collectd from the families, who had people buried there, to clean
it up. Mrs. MacGibbon is a grandaughter of John Oiron Sr. and his wife Sarah Marshall
whose Stone is in the cemetery. When Mrs. Norman Holland died ( a Carpenter
descendent) she left some money towards its care. 1 am also told that the land for
the cemetery came off the old Sweeney farm which was sold to the Kennedys, and when
the Kennedys sold, the new owner did not want to let them into the cemetery, but
then he agreed to let them make a new road to it. 1 am also told that it is Lyle
Kennedy who looks after the cemetery now; taking over from his brother Lloyd. 1 was
also told that one year a grass fire burned down the fence. and that a group got
together and buil t a new one.. . . . ." 1979.
BAPTIST CHURCH

There was a church below the hi11 and across the road from the cemetery- this church
has been mved to Brownsburg and is known has the Brownsburg Regular Baptist Church-
the minister in charge in 1979 was Rev. Geo. B. Hicks. (from Mrs. Jean Mott nee ~unn)

The following was taken from the lachute Watchman 1975 (part of article only)

" Sixty years ago a group of interested Christians dismantled the Baptist Church
building at Edina (near what is now known as Pine Hill, near Indian Lake) and a
number of farmers used their horses and wagons to transport the pieces of the
buildin to the present site, where it was rebuil t. Mrs. George Gunn (our eldest
member 3 who resided on a farm two miles west of Dalesville remembers seeing the
wagons go by. It is thought the building was erected in Edina in 1890. A news
article on the front page of The Lachute Watchman of that first week in November
in 1915 reads as follows:
" After great effort the new church at Brownsburg is nearing completion and the
opening is to take place on Sunday. November 14. Years ago the Edina Church sounded
with the hearty singing of many a pioneer who has since joined the celestial choir
above or moved away to seek more fertile soi1 than Grenville and Chatham offedd
For some years past the door remained locked and the sills were quickly dropping into
decay. This deterioration has been arrested, and the same walls, now set on concrete
foundat+on will once more resound to the singing of hynms and the preaching of the
way of eternal life."

Clarence X. Dodd